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54 relations: Acoustic interferometer, Aharonov–Bohm effect, Air-wedge shearing interferometer, Astronomical interferometer, Atacama Large Millimeter Array, Atom interferometer, Babinet–Soleil compensator, Classical interference microscopy, Double-slit experiment, Dual-polarization interferometry, Fabry–Pérot interferometer, Fizeau interferometer, Fourier-transform spectroscopy, Frequency-resolved optical gating, Gires–Tournois etalon, Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, Heterodyne, Holographic interferometry, Hong–Ou–Mandel effect, Intensity interferometer, Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar, Jamin interferometer, Laser Doppler velocimetry, Laser Doppler vibrometer, Linnik interferometer, Lloyd's mirror, Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer, Mach–Zehnder interferometer, Martin–Puplett interferometer, Michelson interferometer, Michelson stellar interferometer, Microscopy, Mirau interferometer, Moiré pattern, N-slit interferometer, Newton's rings, Optical autocorrelation, Optical coherence tomography, Phase-contrast microscopy, Planar lightwave circuit interferometer, Point diffraction interferometer, Ramsey interferometry, Rayleigh interferometer, Ridged mirror, Sagnac effect, Schlieren photography, Shearing interferometer, Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction, SQUID, Twyman–Green interferometer, ..., Watson interferometer, White light interferometry, White–Juday warp-field interferometer, Young's interference experiment. Expand index (4 more) »
Acoustic interferometer
An acoustic interferometer is an instrument, using interferometry, for measuring the physical characteristics of sound waves in a gas or liquid.
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Aharonov–Bohm effect
The Aharonov–Bohm effect, sometimes called the Ehrenberg–Siday–Aharonov–Bohm effect, is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an electrically charged particle is affected by an electromagnetic potential (V, A), despite being confined to a region in which both the magnetic field B and electric field E are zero.
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Air-wedge shearing interferometer
The air-wedge shearing interferometer is probably the simplest type of interferometer designed to visualize the disturbance of the wavefront after propagation through a test object.
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Astronomical interferometer
An astronomical interferometer is an array of separate telescopes, mirror segments, or radio telescope antennas that work together as a single telescope to provide higher resolution images of astronomical objects such as stars, nebulas and galaxies by means of interferometry.
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Atacama Large Millimeter Array
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
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Atom interferometer
An atom interferometer is an interferometer which uses the wave character of atoms.
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Babinet–Soleil compensator
The Babinet–Soleil compensator is a continuously variable, zero-order retarder.
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Classical interference microscopy
Classical interference microscopy (also referred to as quantitative interference microscopy) uses two separate light beams with much greater lateral separation than that used in phase contrast microscopy or in differential interference microscopy (DIC).
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Double-slit experiment
In modern physics, the double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles; moreover, it displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical phenomena.
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Dual-polarization interferometry
Dual-polarization interferometry (DPI) is an analytical technique that probes molecular layers adsorbed to the surface of a waveguide using the evanescent wave of a laser beam.
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Fabry–Pérot interferometer
In optics, a Fabry–Pérot interferometer (FPI) or etalon is typically made of a transparent plate with two reflecting surfaces, or two parallel highly reflecting mirrors.
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Fizeau interferometer
A Fizeau interferometer is an interferometric arrangement whereby two reflecting surfaces are placed facing each other.
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Fourier-transform spectroscopy
Fourier-transform spectroscopy is a measurement technique whereby spectra are collected based on measurements of the coherence of a radiative source, using time-domain or space-domain measurements of the electromagnetic radiation or other type of radiation.
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Frequency-resolved optical gating
Frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) is a general method for measuring the spectral phase of ultrashort laser pulses, which range from subfemtosecond to about a nanosecond in length.
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Gires–Tournois etalon
In optics, a Gires–Tournois etalon is a transparent plate with two reflecting surfaces, one of which has very high reflectivity.
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Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
In physics, the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) effect is any of a variety of correlation and anti-correlation effects in the intensities received by two detectors from a beam of particles.
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Heterodyne
Heterodyning is a signal processing technique invented in 1901 by Canadian inventor-engineer Reginald Fessenden that creates new frequencies by combining or mixing two frequencies.
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Holographic interferometry
Holographic interferometry (HI)Powell RL & Stetson KA, 1965, J. Opt.
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Hong–Ou–Mandel effect
The Hong–Ou–Mandel effect is a two-photon interference effect in quantum optics which was demonstrated in 1987 by three physicists from the University of Rochester: Chung Ki Hong, Zhe Yu Ou and Leonard Mandel.
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Intensity interferometer
An intensity interferometer is the name given to devices that use the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect.
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Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar, abbreviated InSAR (or deprecated IfSAR), is a radar technique used in geodesy and remote sensing.
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Jamin interferometer
The Jamin interferometer is a type of interferometer, related to the Mach–Zehnder interferometer.
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Laser Doppler velocimetry
Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV), also known as laser Doppler anemometry (LDA), is the technique of using the Doppler shift in a laser beam to measure the velocity in transparent or semi-transparent fluid flows, or the linear or vibratory motion of opaque, reflecting, surfaces.
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Laser Doppler vibrometer
A laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) is a scientific instrument that is used to make non-contact vibration measurements of a surface.
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Linnik interferometer
A Linnik interferometer is a two-beam interferometer used in microscopy and surface contour measurements or topography.
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Lloyd's mirror
Lloyd's mirror is a classic optics experiment that was first described in 1834 by Humphrey Lloyd in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy.
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Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer
The Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer or Lummer–Gehrcke plate is a multiple-beam interferometer similar to the Fabry–Pérot etalon, but using light at a steep angle of incidence.
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Mach–Zehnder interferometer
In physics, the Mach–Zehnder interferometer is a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source.
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Martin–Puplett interferometer
A Martin–Puplett interferometer measures the difference between the powers of two input beams.
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Michelson interferometer
The Michelson interferometer is a common configuration for optical interferometry and was invented by Albert Abraham Michelson.
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Michelson stellar interferometer
The Michelson stellar interferometer is one of the earliest astronomical interferometers built and used.
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Microscopy
Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view objects and areas of objects that cannot be seen with the naked eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye).
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Mirau interferometer
A Mirau interferometer works on the same basic principle as a Michelson interferometer.
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Moiré pattern
In mathematics, physics, and art, a moiré pattern or moiré fringes are large-scale interference patterns that can be produced when an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern.
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N-slit interferometer
The N-slit interferometer is an extension of the double-slit interferometer also known as Young's double-slit interferometer.
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Newton's rings
Newton's rings is a phenomenon in which an interference pattern is created by the reflection of light between two surfaces—a spherical surface and an adjacent touching flat surface.
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Optical autocorrelation
In optics, various autocorrelation functions can be experimentally realized.
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Optical coherence tomography
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique that uses coherent light to capture micrometer-resolution, two- and three-dimensional images from within optical scattering media (e.g., biological tissue).
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Phase-contrast microscopy
Phase-contrast microscopy is an optical microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in light passing through a transparent specimen to brightness changes in the image.
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Planar lightwave circuit interferometer
An interferometer is an optical measuring device using the principle of light waves canceling and reinforcing each other.
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Point diffraction interferometer
A point diffraction interferometer (PDI) is a type of common-path interferometer.
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Ramsey interferometry
Ramsey interferometry, also known as Ramsey–Bordé interferometry or the separated oscillating fields method, is a form of atom interferometry that uses the phenomenon of magnetic resonance to measure transition frequencies of atoms.
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Rayleigh interferometer
The Rayleigh interferometer employs two beams of light from a single source, and determines the difference in optical path length between the two paths using interference between the two beams when they are recombined following traversal of the paths.
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Ridged mirror
In atomic physics, a ridged mirror (or ridged atomic mirror, or Fresnel diffraction mirror) is a kind of atomic mirror, designed for the specular reflection of neutral particles (atoms) coming at the grazing incidence angle, characterised in the following: in order to reduce the mean attraction of particles to the surface and increase the reflectivity, this surface has narrow ridges.
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Sagnac effect
The Sagnac effect, also called Sagnac interference, named after French physicist Georges Sagnac, is a phenomenon encountered in interferometry that is elicited by rotation.
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Schlieren photography
Schlieren photography (from German; singular "Schliere", meaning "streak") is a visual process that is used to photograph the flow of fluids of varying density.
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Shearing interferometer
The shearing interferometer is an extremely simple means to observe interference and to use this phenomenon to test the collimation of light beams, especially from laser sources which have a coherence length which is usually a lot longer than the thickness of the shear plate (see graphics) so that the basic condition for interference is fulfilled.
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Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction
In ultrafast optics, spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER) is an ultrashort pulse measurement technique originally developed by Chris Iaconis and Ian Walmsley.
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SQUID
A SQUID (for superconducting quantum interference device) is a very sensitive magnetometer used to measure extremely subtle magnetic fields, based on superconducting loops containing Josephson junctions.
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Twyman–Green interferometer
A Twyman–Green interferometer is a variant of the Michelson interferometer principally used to test optical components.
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Watson interferometer
The Watson interferometer is a vintage microscope accessory (for use only in reflected light microscopy) which was manufactured by the Watson Company in Great Britain.
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White light interferometry
As described here, white light interferometry is a non-contact optical method for surface height measurement on 3-D structures with surface profiles varying between tens of nanometers and a few centimeters.
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White–Juday warp-field interferometer
The White–Juday warp-field interferometer is an experiment designed to detect a microscopic instance of a warping of spacetime.
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Young's interference experiment
Young's interference experiment, also called Young's double-slit interferometer, was the original version of the modern double-slit experiment, performed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by Thomas Young.
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